TELETYPESETTER, a new invention to set type by tele graph. It operates automatically either a linotype or intertype typesetting machine and will considerably increase production. It is estimated that one man can easily operate four or five of them when controlled by teletypesetters. .From one transmitting distributor, type will be set on any number of typesetting machines situated in any place that can be reached by telegraph. It will be valuable also in newspaper offices and in printing plants for purely local work where the tape can be perforated and sent to the composing room to operate the typesetting machines. On the receiving end in newspaper offices a mechanical printer can be operated simultaneously for typewriting the message. In the printing of books, the rolls made by the teletypesetter can be used as a permanent record, making unnecessary storing of metal plate.
The teletypesetter is made of three units : sending, receiving and typesetting. At the sending station the apparatus consists of a perforator, a counter and a transmitting distributor. The per
forator, resembling a portable typewriter, produces a tape with coded perforations which the distributor changes into electrical impulses. The receiving apparatus is made up of a reperforator and a printer, the purpose of the latter being to enable the receiver to read the matter transmitted. Beyond the reperforator are the transmitting distributor, through which the tape runs to be changed into electrical impulses, the selecting units, with magnets to operate the typesetting machine, and a panel box, containing relays to control the machine and furnish power to operate the automatic elevator..
Experiments are under way to make the teletypesetter type write the message on the tape at the same time that it perforates it. Also, it is being attempted to operate by radio a teletype which automatically records typewritten matter. The development of the teletypesetter is credited to Frank E. Gannett, Walter W. Morey and the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Corporation. (J. C. Os.)